This research guide will assist with utilizing advanced search techniques to enable better search results with your assignments. We have recommended specific databases that are most suitable for the research required by this class. These databases can provide authoritative information. However, this research guide is not meant to be a comprehensive and you may wish to use additional resources.
Please contact the Kelvin Smith business librarians for further assistance.

Catherine Wells             
caw7@cwru.edu   
368-5201

Tiffeni Fontno           
tjf5@cwru.edu
368-6599

Search Strategies for Assignments


Search Tips: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Search Tips: Disruptive Technologies
Search Tips: System Success & Failure
Search Tips: CIO Executive Dialog
Search Tips: Technology Talk

EXAMPLES

BOOLEAN

AND

Retrieves only records
containing both terms.

decision making AND management AND planning 

NOT

Excludes records containing
the second term.

internet AND NOT html

OR

Retrieves records containing
either one or more terms.

internet OR intranet

NESTING

Use parentheses ( ) to group portions of boolean queries for more complex searches.

decision making AND (management of crisis OR risk management)

PROXIMITY

Common proximity operators are :

within

pre

near

Proximity operators require  terms to occur  within a specified distance of each other.

Stipulating that the words must be close to each other in the text of the article  increases the likelihood that they will be conceptually linked.